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Anonymous
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How to plot area graph without stacking

Hi, 

 

New on power BI. I'm having troubles ploting an area chart like this one without stacking all the categories. 

 

Thank you.

 

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Hi,

Thank you for your feedback.

When I saw your formatting pane of the area chart of your Power-BI-Picture, I could not find the "Small Multiples" section.

In this section, you can drag your Category column, then the visualization would look similar to your desired picture.

I think you need to upgrade the power bi desktop to the most current version, then you can see the "Small Multiples" section in the formatting pane when you select Area Chart.

 

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Jihwan_Kim
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Hi, @Anonymous 

Please correct me if I wrongly understood your question.

Instead using stacked area chart, try to use Area Chart.

 

Hi, My name is Jihwan Kim.

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Anonymous
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Hi Jihwan, As a simple area chart it still shows them stacked instead of dividing them by category like I showed on Tableau.

Hi,

Thank you for your feedback.

In my opinion, it is not stacked.

If it is OK with you, can you draw your desired outcome?


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Anonymous
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Maybe I didn't explain myself very well. 

The desired result would be this:

 

Hi,

Thank you for your feedback.

When I saw your formatting pane of the area chart of your Power-BI-Picture, I could not find the "Small Multiples" section.

In this section, you can drag your Category column, then the visualization would look similar to your desired picture.

I think you need to upgrade the power bi desktop to the most current version, then you can see the "Small Multiples" section in the formatting pane when you select Area Chart.

 

Hi, My name is Jihwan Kim.

If this post helps, then please consider accept it as the solution to help other members find it faster, and give a big thumbs up.


If this post helps, then please consider accepting it as the solution to help other members find it faster, and give a big thumbs up.


Click here to visit my LinkedIn page

Click here to schedule a short Teams meeting to discuss your question.
Anonymous
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Hi, 

It's solved.

Thank you so much for your help.

I had the lastest version of power BI but I didn't have the small multiples option enabled in settings.

 

 

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